primemedical item

check the article about medical

		
Canada has a federally sponsored, publicly funded Medicare system, 
with most services provided by the private sector. Each province may opt out, though 
none currently do. Canada's system is known as a single payer system, where basic services 
are provided by private doctors, (since 2002 they have been allowed to incorporate), with 
the entire fee paid for by the government at the same rate. Most all family doctors receive
a fee per visit. These rates are negotiated between the provincial governments and the province's 
medical associations, usually on an annual basis. A physician cannot charge a fee for a service 
that is higher than the negotiated rate - even to patients who are not covered by the publicly 
funded system - unless he opts out of billing the publicly funded system altogether. Pharmaceutical
costs are set at a global median by government price controls. Other areas of health care, such 
as dentistry and optometry, are wholly private.